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Won't ever happen, Linus is very much in favor of companies being able to use drm, when needed.
I kinda sorta agree because without it Linux wouldn't be able to do anything requiring dr.m
This is misleading, since regular desktop DRM would still obviously work, which is what the end user really cares about
I haven't looked into it for a while but iirc, certain DRM would require DRM kernel modules which is something that Linus explicitly wants to allow
The anti-tivoization clause in GPLv3 is what Linus is against specifically.